A mother says goodbye to her little boy as children are evacuated. September, 1939.

A soldier marries a member of the ATS in London. October, 1939.

German prisoners of war fill sandbags somewhere in the North of England. November, 1939.

A German prisoner of war being taught to darn his socks by a British army soldier.

A shop assistant cuts out a coupon from a ration book at a London store. January, 1940.

Evelyn Andrews and Betty Stephenson working as Land Girls in the New Forest. January, 1940.

A woman motorbike messenger brings a letter to a government office in London. April, 1940.

Indian soldiers training with the Home Guard, July 7 th 1940

A dog is rescued from a bombed house in the London blitz.

Men working on top of a pile of collected aluminium pans. July, 1940.

Three women working as welders cutting the girders on a temporary bridge at Waterloo Station, London,1941.

Arthur Merritt feeds pigs at his school's farm in September, 1941.

A boy collecting salvage in Kent. October, 1941.

A small boy marches through London with members of the Armed Forces in Warship Week

Rescue workers search for missing children in a bombed London school. January, 1943.

Children growing vegetables on a bomb site in London. July, 1943

A concert is held in a London Tube Station during an air raid. May, 1944.

Sunbathing in Hyde Park, London. June, 1944.

Children in a London classroom. August, 1944.

Guy Fawkes Day. Scene at Waterloo today. November, 1944.

Young people queuing for supper at a youth club in London. February, 1945.

Buses are stopped in Piccadilly, London, by VE Day crowds. May, 1945.

Crowds in Downing Street, London, on the day of the Japanese surrender. August, 1945.

A man puts food waste into a Concentrator in Manchester. February, 1946

Women ask for more meat on the ration at the House of Commons and the Ministry of Food. January, 1951.

Floodlit fountains at the Festival of Britain in London, 1951.